On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 19:31 +0000, BeartoothHOS wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:17:40 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > > > On Thursday 31 December 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it > >> needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've > >> been using Fedora since before it was Fedora, and have *never* had a > >> situation in which LVM was any use to me. [....] > >> > > On this we can agree. My last F11 install blew up because of a problem > > with LVM. I don't "do" LVM because I've got a fairly minimal computer. > [....] > > I have one more, and the most critical machine on which to > replace F11 with F12 -- and I picked up a hint the other day that LVM was > the reason I kept being unable, by any means I could find, to increase > the size of /boot. I would like very much to get rid of LVM -- but have > no clue how. > > I know Anaconda offers an option to *hide* LVM, but I don't > recall any choice to eschew it entirely. Am I just having a memory lapse? > > If not, would some kind soul please explain to this subtechnoid > how to do it? It's been a while but I think I just formatted the disk w/o LVM. I wouldn't think it's possible to remove LVM from an existing layout without backing up and reformatting. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
